At least the early MGS games were intentionally "gamey" and Kojima understood and embraced the limitations of the time, MGS1-3 are all full of cartoony unrealistic feats not realy meant to inspire anyone to roleplay anything. Only MGS4-5 start taking things too seriously as he becomes obsessed with realism.
Anyway the point is COD, BF etc all modern AAA shooters and descendants of Counter Strike are very much unironic and realistic games meant either to recruit or make gamers larp about real combat. Those kids probably never played shit like MGS1-3 that very much embraced pseudo-scientific bullshit or straight up cartoon level story telling and villains.
At least the early MGS games were intentionally "gamey" and Kojima understood and embraced the limitations of the time, MGS1-3 are all full of cartoony unrealistic feats not realy meant to inspire anyone to roleplay anything. Only MGS4-5 start taking things too seriously as he becomes obsessed with realism.
Anyway the point is COD, BF etc all modern AAA shooters and descendants of Counter Strike are very much unironic and realistic games meant either to recruit or make gamers larp about real combat. Those kids probably never played shit like MGS1-3 that very much embraced pseudo-scientific bullshit or straight up cartoon level story telling and villains.
Oh I love all the MGS, the only games I like on that list. I'm just fuxing around
Counterpoint: libs are being cringe about avenegrs/capeshit too, so no amount of retreating from realism can help here.